Yesterday I was doing some work over at Red Cartel, as part of it I coded a new network render submission script for Blender 2.5 to Autodesk Backburner – the default queue manager that comes with Max and Maya. I’d previously already made a similar exporter for Blender 2.4 which has been in use there for a while, allowing managing and prioritising Blender jobs alongside Max/vray jobs on the same farm.
I’ve packaged it up as a Blender 2.5 addon, it might be useful to any of you wanting to render Blender jobs in an Autodesk-centric environment. Get it here: http://mke3.net/projects/bpy/render_backburner.py
Sweet! I may not have a direct need for it right now, but you never know when it ends up coming handy, thanks!!
hey… thanks alot… i used backburner alot with maya and i still have it so this will come in handy in the future!
thankyou very much!
Hi Matt,
Looks very interesting. It’s quite an old post, does the script also work with blender 2.6 and up?
Hi, I would assume not – there have unfortunately been very many python API changes since then, that break compatibility 🙁 It may not be too much work to update it yourself though if you know a bit of python.
Hi Matt
In year 2021 I found a distribution of your Script for Blender 2.7 and I did Update that for Blender 2.8x & 2.9x. what you done is Great and your Codes still Alive and kick.
Thank you.
That’s amazing that you could still get it to work after all these years! Very nice to hear, thanks!